Abstract
In this short paper some examples of tafoni and similar features of cavernous weathering are described from Western Scotland and Southern Greece, including Crete and the Santorini group. All these forms belong to the younger Holocene. This age is indicated by young tectonic emergence from the sea, historical data, or the well known volcanic history of Santorini. Pre-Holocene tafoni are neither more widespread nor better developed than those of the last 2000 or 3000 years. Very different rocks are weathered into tafoni features: old and young sandstones and calcareous sandstones, pliocene conglomerates, eolianites, or lavas and holocene tephra. The tafoni are nearly in all cases strongly oriented towards the present sea front, and therefore salt weathering should be the most effective process.
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